B.3:4.1 - Start from one assurance question

State these three things before choosing measures or a record:

1. the exact target claim;
2. the named assurance use;
3. the conclusion that must be supported, narrowed, or refused for that use.

Keep the following objects separate whenever they are current:

1. world-side facts and direct domain results;
2. the target-claim episteme;
3. evidence-use relations and source-provenance paths;
4. any assessment Work and the System that performed it;
5. formal, empirical, causal, measurement, conformance, or comparison input results;
6. the assurance-result episteme;
7. calculation traces, witnesses, and an optional note or publication that cites the result;
8. later reliance, status use, gate, permission, release, or action.

Evidence can support or challenge a claim. It does not make the target fact true. A favorable assurance result does not pass a gate, grant permission, or prove that later work relied on it.